In this collection of essays, Anne Fadiman focuses on 12 of her personal obsessions, from her childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her crush on Charles Lamb. Her tales are in the traditional form of the essay, a literary genre recognized for both its intellectual breath (“at large”) and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences (“at small”).


Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, the Chace Family Professor and director of the Lewis Walpole Library
(Princeton University Press)

In this book, Ruth Yeazell explores the fascination with Dutch painting in the 19th century, as well as society’s doubts in that era about an art that had long challenged traditional values. “Art of the Everyday” shows how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike, and looks at four major novelists — Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Marcel Proust — for whom Dutch art provided a model for training to look closely at the particulars of middle-class life. Yet, even as 19th-century novelists strove to create illusions of the real by modeling their narratives on Dutch pictures, she argues, they chafed at the model. A chapter on Proust explains why the 19th century associated such realism with the past and shows how the rediscovery of Vermeer helped resolve the longstanding conflict between humble details and the aspirations of high art.


American Sonnets: An Anthology (American Poets Project)
Edited by David Bromwich, Sterling ­Professor of English
(Library of America)

In this Library of America anthology, David Bromwich presents 161 sonnets and sonnet sequences by 56 American poets, including Longfellow, Jones Very, Poe, Millay, Berryman and Robert Frost. Arranged chronologically from the colonial period to the present, the collections serves as a mini-survey of American poetry and reveals American poets’ interest in experimentation. Bromwich illustrates how the American sonnet marries European artistic tradition to New World innovation and imagination.


Endless Things: A part of Ægypt
John Crowley, lecturer in English and creative writing
(Small Beer Press)

This is the fourth novel and the conclusion of John Crowley’s Ægypt sequence: a meditation on history, alchemy and memory. Spanning three centuries and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno and present-day historian and writer Pierce Moffett, the Ægypt sequence has drawn comparisons to Lawrence Durrell’s “Alexandria Quartet” and Anthony Powell’s “Dance to the Music of Time.”


It
Joseph Roach, the Charles and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater
(University of Michigan Press)

The elusive “It” — “the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people” — is the subject of Joseph Roach’s new book. Roach traces the origins of “It” back to the period following the Restoration, linking the charm, magnetism or charisma of today’s celebrity figures with those who lived centuries before. Among those with the “It” quality Roach mentions in his book are King Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Flo Ziegfeld, Johnny Depp, Elinor Glyn, Clara Bow, the Second Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, Michael Jackson and Princess Diana.


Drawn to Enchant: Original Children’s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection
Timothy Young, curator of the Betsy ­Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children’s Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
(Yale University Press)

“Drawn to Enchant” celebrates original artwork for children’s books from the collection of Betsy Beinecke Shirley. The images demonstrate how children’s books have evolved from the nation’s first days of independence to modern times. Artists whose works are represented include Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A.B. Frost, Wanda Gág, Peter Newell, N.C. Wyeth, Ton Sarg, Robert Lawson and Johnny Gruelle.


Shades of the Planet: American ­Literature as World Literature
Edited by Wai Chi Dimock, the William Lampson Professor of English and ­American Studies, and Lawrence Buell
(Princeton University Press)

Leading scholars debate whether studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world is justified in “Shades of the Planet.” However, in their assessments, they begin with the world as circumference, rather than with the United States as a center. Contributors show how American literature is alive with traces of West Africa, Eastern Europe, Iran, Iraq, India, China, Mexico and Australia. They reveal how the Broadway musical “Oklahoma,” for example, has aboriginal antecedents, how black English houses African syntax, and so on. Contributors include Rachel Adams, Jonathan Arac, Homi Bhabha, Susan Stanford Friedman, Paul Giles, David Palumbo-Liu, Ross Posnock, Joseph Roach and Eric J. Sundquist in addition to Dimock and Buell.


Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff
Dean Sakamoto, critic and director of exhibitions at the School of Architecture, with Karla Britton, lecturer at the School of Architecture, and Diana Murphy
(Yale University Press in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts)

At the forefront of the postwar phe­nomenon known as tropical modernism, Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998) won recognition as the “master of Hawaiian architecture.” This book is the first to focus on Ossipoff’s career, presenting new material on the architect and situating him within the tropical modernist movement and the cultural context of the Pacific region. The authors discuss how Ossipoff synthesized Eastern and Western in­fluences, including Japanese building techniques and modern architectural principles, and how he drew inspiration from the interplay of indoor and outdoor space as advocated by such architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, applying these to the concerns and vernacular traditions of the tropics.


IICAPS: A Home-Based Psychiatric Treatment for Children and Adolescents
Dr. Joseph L. Woolston, the Albert J. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics and senior medical director of IICAPS; Jean A. Adnopoz, clinical professor and program director of IICAPS; and Dr. Steven J. Berkowitz, assistant professor at the Child Study Center
(Yale University Press)

This book presents a model of mental health treatment for children with serious psychiatric illnesses. The Intensive In-Home Child Care and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) program, intially implemented by the authors in 1996, offers an alternative treatment paradigm for families. Adopted in 13 sites across Connecticut, IICAPS, the authors say, has proven effective in reducing the need for inpatient and other institutional-based services. Intended for health providers and planners, the book explains the IICAPS treatment approach and explores some of the unresolved challenges related to home-based care for children with serious psychiatric disorders.

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